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California's Healthy Kids program provides health insurance to low-income children, including those of illegal immigrants. Private donors and local taxes have funded the program, but as John Sepulvado of member station KAZU reports, a plan to add state dollars is stalling the annual budget process.

Corrections officials have complained for years that America's prisons and jails are becoming the country's new asylums for the mentally ill. A recent Justice Department study supports that claim. It says more than half of all prison and jail inmates have experienced mental health problems in the last year.

Johnny Depp's lawyers question the truthfulness of Amber Heard's accusation that Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.

Georgia lawmakers are expected to pass a bill authorizing a Bible literacy class in public high schools. The class, "History and Literature of the Old and New Testament," will be taught with the Bible as the text. The bill does not require that schools teach the course, or that students take it. Emily Kopp of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports.

Stung by criticism that they reacted too slowly to Katrina, federal officials say they're working hard to avoid making the same mistakes twice. Already, President Bush has declared Hurricane Rita an "incident of national significance" -- which helps rally federal resources.

The Florida Department of Health is accused of violating public records laws by turning down requests for daily COVID-19 data.

Although the government is responsible for providing health services to people in jail and prison, inmates are still often expected to pay for a share of the treatment.

More than 1,000 people connected with Eight Days of Hope, an all-volunteer and faith-based national organization, rolled into Fort Myers Saturday to provide help to more than 100 families in the Harlem Heights area impacted by Hurricane Ian through free home repairs. The group is partnering with the Heights Foundation and Summit Church.

All eyes and ears were on the mayors of both Fort Myers Beach, Dan Allers, and Sanibel, Richard Johnson, when they recently shared island updates 7 months post-Hurricane Ian at a local commercial real estate meeting.

Florida lawmakers have advanced several bills on the histories of minorities in the country. The proposals come amid a state debate on exactly what sort of historical discussions belong in state classrooms.